Why Couples Counseling

Secure loving relationships have a profound impact on every aspect of our well-being. Good relationships protect us from stress and help us to better cope with life's challenges. Couples therapy is an opportunity to strengthen what is working, while providing a forum for couples to foster closeness. For couples in a difficult place, therapy can offer insight into reoccurring patterns and provide necessary tools for healthy relating. Whether you are in a thriving relationship or on the brink of breaking up, couples therapy can help you sharpen your relationship skills, understand relational patterns and communicate with your partner from a thoughtful and caring place.

 

Build Skills

Learn fundamental keys to healthy relating

  • Communicate with your partner from an honest, more grounded place

  • Become better equipped to view your relationship from a more objective perspective

  • Gain insight into relational patterns and use this information to improve your relationship

  • Identify your triggers in a relationship, as a means to enhance your ability to relate to your partner

Learn how to use conflict effectively

  • Transform conflict into an opportunity for understanding and growth

  • Develop the resilience to sit with difficult feelings and move through conflict with greater ease

  • Discover effective styles of communication in order to reduce conflict in your relationship